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SELLING FAST Discourse: Thinking slowly about uncertainty

Thu 30 Jan 2025

Renowned statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter explores how we can better deal with risk, uncertainty, luck, chance and ignorance

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Discourse: Do we have a standard model of cosmology?

Fri 28 Feb 2025

Join renowned cosmologist George Efstathiou as he explores how cosmology has changed over recent decades, and what secrets are

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Discourse: A mathematician's journey for social justice

Fri 28 Mar 2025

Join mathematician Nira Chamberlain as he proposes how to better Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) as a pure science

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SOLD OUT Discourse: Christmas Lecturer 2024

Fri 22 Nov 2024

Join 2024 Christmas Lecturer Chris van Tulleken for the November Discourse

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Discourse: The scientist and the forger

Fri 27 Sep 2024

Jehane Ragai delves into this ongoing battle between scientists and forgers, revealing the cutting-edge and traditional methods

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Discourse: Future of transplantation – from machines to 3D printing

Fri 25 Oct 2024
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Discourse: Beyond the perception envelope with Conrad Shawcross

Fri 24 May 2024

Join Conrad Shawcross as he uses artistic expression to explore cosmological theories and the perception envelope.

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Discourse: The science of happiness

Wed 26 Jun 2024

Renowned psychologist Bruce Hood provides a neuroscience-grounded and transformative insight into rewiring our thinking and

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SELLING FAST - Discourse: Decoding the cosmos

Fri 26 Apr 2024

Unravel the profound mysteries of the universe's explosive birth.

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Discourse: Space oddities with Harry Cliff

Wed 27 Mar 2024

Explore the cosmic anomalies currently perplexing all scientists.

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